Dismountable and adjustable skate.



SOTY. DISMOUNTABLE AND DJUSBLE SKATE.

APPUCATION FILED JMLZ., 1915, Patented June 15, 1915.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

Josnrn soTz, or NEW Yom; N. Y.

DISMOUNTABLE AND ADJUSTABLE SKATE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented ,111119.15 1915.

Appneatin mea January 27, 1915. serial No. 4,665.

To all whom it may con'cern Be it known that I, JosEPH Sorr, a subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Dismountable .and Adjustable Skates, of which the lthe skates taken apart, may easily be carried in a pocket and that different kinds of blades, serving for dierent modesof skating, may be used with the'same body portion of a skate. y v

A further object of Amy invention is to lprovide skates which adapt themselves to various distances of'toes to heels and may either permanently be attached to the shoes by means of screws or be provided with gripping -means automaticall adapting themselves tothe various sizes o shoes. ,One

. advantage of the latter Vfeature is that the skates may easily and quickly be attached to and detached from the shoes.

A final object of my invention is to pro Figs. 4 and 5 are vertical cross sectional views, taken on the' lines 4-4 and 5 5 of Figs. 1Yand`3, respectively, thelatter being consideredin its assembled form. Figs. 6, 7 and 8 are vertical cross sectional views of differently shaped blades, showing, in elevation, fractions of the respective body portions engaging same. Figs. 9, 10 and 11 are perspective views of differently shaped blade: detached from the body portions of the skate@ Fig. 12 is a perspectiveview of a fastening attachment. Fig. 13 is a longitudinal horizontal section of another attachment.

The same part is designated by the same referencecharacter throughout the different views. f

Referring more particularly to the .drawing, 15 designates the sole plate, 16 the heel plate, 17 the vertical stay members and 18 the channel shaped clamping members of the body portion of each skate which is substantially the same in all forms of my device, with the exception that in Figs. 3 and 5 I show a form in which there is an extra tube 19 formed in theA clamping members 18, for purposes which will hereinafter be set forth.

It will be seen, that the body portion of each skate comprises a heel portion consisting of the heel-plate 15, its respective stay member 17 and clamping member 18, and a sole-portion, consisting of the sole-plate 16, its respective stay member 17 and clamping member 18, an additional stay member 17 being added at the front end. Thus the heel and sole portions of the body of the skate are entirely separate units, connected only by the blades'2U which are so shaped that they ma be inserted into und be engaged by the c aune] Vor groove 21 formedin the clamping members 18 of both the heel and the sole portionsof the body of the skate. The channels orgrooves *21 and the corresponding parts of the 'blades 20 are preferably of a standard cross sectional area so that any blade may fit into the clamping members of any skate made according to my invention, thus being thoroughly interchangeable. The blades 20 are slidable longitudinally in the clamping members 18, a flange 22 being formed at the front end of that part of the blades20 which enf ters the groove 21, in order to limit this sliding movement of the'blades in one direction and a lug 23 carried by the front end' of the blades 20,v adapted to be engaged by a clamping hook 24 hingedly carried by thev stay 17, serves to limit the said sliding movement in the opposite direction., The f heel portion of the body of the skates .slides roo freely on the blade ixfed vto the sole ortion as above described and' is mainte.' t its 101s. 'pronerl place by being attached to the'sheepassed 'through screwholes 25 made in the4 sole and hed plates, -in the usual Way, clamps 2G-and 27 at the front eno of the sole plate and rear end-oi:` the heel' plate .156, rel

specaveiy, beingplyovided ferygthegsaie er f;

additional security. 'The point of the eiamp f 26 overlaps and engages the protrudingA tion of the'bodyo'fftheskate; V"These cljar'n' -thg Clamp?" gofglip'th@ Sli'lldihl-H V'hnble in tiie:borefcorrespondingrtetheheel' ,Pisis Cilltfzd,tosaidv spring;` iifith-:one end,

having meansat itsother end preventing `it l from slipping-.cut 'of the bore, 'gripi'iing 'means formed 'in said.longitndinalportions i. interchangeablerun-1' vdevice in which the solo ,ne'rs'adaptsd to be inserted inte an :engaged edge of the sole, Whereas that'ofthe'clamp 27 enters a hole to be made for that purr ypose in the back of the heel.

If it is desired toadapttheshates for be; ing temporarily' attached to' the' slices, so as to take `them off after each use, l provide-aresilient clamp 28 (Figs. 1 and 13), consisting of a tube 2 8, a helicall spring 28h in' the* center of 4 the tube 28a, two 'plungers y28 one' in either end of the tube 28a, their inner ends being secured tothe spring" and their outer ends carrying liooks'QSd. The plunger's QSC are provided, near their outer ends, withv lugs 28 for 'limiting Atheir movement in respect to the tube 28a.- 'Tlie hooks 28d 'are hooked into slots 29 formedfin 'each `of the stays 17, and thereby,teiidhto diaiv the heel I' and sole portion'sl' Ythierbfodyiof the skate towardeaclioth'eig'ithat movement being limited by th'clainps. 26a1id A27 vengaging;yV the shoe sole rand .h'eel# respectively, whereby 'the skate aait'o'inati Ll. adapts .'itselfl'to 'the' length of the'sl'ioe.'-v II-attach two other clanips 30, one-'t'o thesole andone to the lfieel--piir consist of a'tub'eSOlaheiical springr 30h i serted therein andlplungers 30"', sliding Y the tube f'Ofgon'e atT 'cach end, attached to this1 liecl of the shoe, respectivelygiin fthefsamje. Way asv deseribedwitli'regard'to theclainp's QG and 27%.- 'The' tube 30 is 'slott'btran versely at longitudinal .center (Fig. 12) for=talringup` audengagi m" forni' 'oi-"Inv Ad heet portions the sole portion of the clamping member 18,

by the hook 24 drawn through it. The operation of this device is obvious from the yIt is obvious that besides these many otherI shapes may be manufactured and usedin conjunction .with the body-portion of my skates, thus adapting, same` foruniversalnse.

Also', if thevblade breaks, ,Whicliis oftenfthe steel blades, theb'odyportion case With fine'LA thus shown 'and described sonepreferred ,drawing and requires no furtherv'desoription; In Figi) I show a blade' 'adaptedfr'fancy-L" forms of embodiment i of 'my invention, I 'do fnot' Want to 'be'limited to itsinechani'cal de- "ta-ils but may resort toalterations and Inodiicati'ons which -coine'ivithin ythe scope L ofjthe 'claims hereunto appended.

vi eine i comprising, in combination',-slioessupporting differcnttypes adapted! of various modesofskatingoand ineaiiscarf 'iidbefengageld,bysaid n t '3.' Skates"Witli' intero i comprising' ping` means.

I fSlrates with' interc' hatlgtezdile.- runnersV 2f. Skates comp siiig,'{ii n.cornbinatiellb1L;` y y "sole and heelplateadapted tobeattached on clampsSOd adapted' toerig gethes'olegand to the respective portionsnota shoe, stays); depending from said'sdle' end lieel plates, y

gripping n iean's" foiinedlonjsaidi stays,- `andi d iladesbadaptedwto be ysinovablyiinserted into ngeable V'runners in cQinbination,- separate .heel attafcliahe tothe respectire a: 'portions cfa,slioexerticalstays depending,

by said 'shoe-supp'farting?members for 1 interchangeably atta-ciiuig'thereto either one@4 out the Vlength et' each Qi said ,longitudinal portions, a spiral `spriii'g.ii'iseiztedyin the bore corresponding to .thej solefplate, aired'. sidel vvbelow said. .bores and by said gripping .uieansl s.

li. Skae runners of dl'erent longtunal and cross sectional shape adaypted fox the plu-poses of various modes of skating, mea-ns on said runners for alternately attaching 5 them to or detachng them from ille body*V portions of skates and means provided @n said body-portions for removably attaching ,'fcheo either on@ uf sa rumxes, substan wally as and im' the pmpose seiJ forth.

JSEPH SOTYJ Wness:

WILLLAM Smmiovc,

lMMBELBUEG. 

